Secure IaC
Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) is a powerful partnership accelerator. As businesses and organizations scale into the cloud to realize its full production-enablement potential, security often struggles to keep up. The ultimate goal on the security horizon is, of course, to prevent risks and misconfigurations before runtime. This won’t always happen, but teams can still get into a rhythm where runtime mistakes become the exception rather than the rule.
Customizing an IaC solution means many things. Declarative statements that define code infrastructure is the basic gist. From a compliance standpoint, it means leveraging security-approved templates that make it easier for developers to take over certain highly repeatable tasks. Even properly stood up, this isn’t a completely cut-and-dry process. A continuous loop of developer feedback and security guidance is necessary for success. Let’s take a look at the benefits of successful IaC and how it enables teams to come together in a more holistic way.
Benefit #1: Strong security and compliance
It’s often called a “virtuous cycle:” the notion that teams will ultimately work perfectly together. They’ll create a sense of shared responsibility, owning a project in totality, with developers seamlessly integrating cloud-security tasks into application builds. But we’re all human. So your virtuous cycle might have some imperfections, and that’s ok. The goal is to increase cloud security while maintaining or accelerating builds. InsightAppSec by Rapid7 supports this process in the following ways:
Running scans of your web apps and, depending on the results, determining the pass/fail status of the build
Automating handoffs between developer and security teams
Simulating an attack on the a ..
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